The Ghana Medical Association in the Ashanti Region has called for better infrastructure to aid in the treatment of critically ill Covid-19 patients.
This, according to the president of the association, Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, will also help minimise the deaths in the region.
His comments come on the back of a revelation by the President of the Ghana Association of Doctors in Residency (GADOR), Dr Ben Hammond that the entire region has only five beds for critically-ill Covid-19 patients.
Speaking on the Prime Morning Show, he indicated that the situation is alarming because KATH is the only facility that has the capacity to attend to critically ill patients in the Ashanti Region.
According to Dr Hammond, “Now we have a lot of people being managed in private facilities, they are dying in these private facilities.”
He observed that most private facilities are disregarding the Covid protocol for handling an infected patient as they deceive relatives of the affected patients.
“What is making it serious is that these people die and the private facilities tell their relatives that it was just pneumonia when in actual fact they were Covid cases," he said on Prime Morning.
So instead of following the normal protocols for handling suspected Covid deaths are sent to private mortuary so you realize that the tests are not even done.”
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